Scott Roeder, the man who murdered George Tiller, Kansas’ only late term abortion doctor has confessed. In a telephone call from his jail cell, he told an AP reporter that he did in fact kill Dr. Tiller,
“Because of the fact preborn children’s lives were in imminent danger this was the action I chose. … I want to make sure that the focus is, of course, obviously on the preborn children and the necessity to defend them,” Roeder said.
“Defending innocent life — that is what prompted me. I mean, it is pretty simple,” he said.
So far, he is charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault for threatening, allegedly, two ushers who tried to stop him that Sunday, 31 May.
When asked if he had any regrets, or if he would do it again, he said,
“No, I don’t have any regrets because I have been told so far at least four women have changed their minds, that I know of, and have chosen to have the baby, so even if one changed her mind it would be worth it. No, I don’t have any regrets.”
“We all have a sense of duty and obligation to protect innocent life. If anybody is in a situation where they can, I think it is their obligation.”
And anti-abortion activist, Joe Provone said that Roeder, and others, were “worthy of admiration, gratitude and respect.”
“Not everyone possesses their courage or ability as we are all endowed by our God with different gifts and talents,” Provone wrote in an e-mail to AP. “Please rest assured I will continue to protest the killing of the unborn in the way I deem appropriate given my own self-appraisal.”
Compiled from various reports
November 10th, 2009 12:37 am
“Not everyone possesses their courage or ability as we are all endowed by our God with different gifts and talents,”
I didn’t realize murder was a “gift” from on high, did you? I must have over-looked that passage.
November 10th, 2009 12:39 am
Pj, you are simply missing the gift of being able to be a sniper. Or the ability to be pro-life and still murder.
November 10th, 2009 4:27 am
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